Abstract: Cloud-top entrainment instability was investigated using a mixing line analysis. Mixing time scales are closely related to the actual size of the parcel, so that local instabilities are largely dependent on the scales of ...

Abstract: A theory of the parameterization of the entrainment zone depth has been developed based on conservation of energy. This theory suggests that the normalized entrainment zone depth is proportional to the inverse square root ...

Abstract: In situ aircraft data and lidar data are used to analyze a transition in the boundary layer thermodynamic structure from a clear boundary layer through small cumulus and broken stratocumulus to a deck of solid stratocumulus. ...

Abstract: The microstructure of a Pacific stratocumulus capped boundary layer was examined. The boundary layer flow was over an area of sea-surface temperature gradient, so that no steady state was present. Conserved variable diagrams ...

Abstract: A Nd:YAG lidar system was flown aboard NASA's ER-2 high altitude aircraft. Observations of cloud top height were made with 70 m along-track and 7.5 m vertical-height resolution. The lidar data observed from an East Pacific ...

Abstract: Two cold-air outbreaks were studied during the Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment. A lidar system was operated to observe the boundary layer evolution and the development of clouds. On the first day (30 January 1986) ...

Abstract: AbstractIn the Agile Way of Working (AoW), a group of developers jointly work to efficiently realize a project. Here we report on the application of AoW in meteorological research and development (R&D) outside of the ...